Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COIMTY CORRESPONDENCE. ?tkwby ijrrriam from ouk spk itlajl tX>IUU?PONT>HNTS. of lateeest From all Parts of and Adjoining Counties In OTIC ? TO COFIRKSFONDETNTS. I Moil year letters 00 that they will '?eeeh thla cflloe not later than Mon ftay a hon intruded for Wednesday * nB^#or end not later than Thursday fjf tartnrday's Issue. This, of course, applies only to regular correspond sssee* la case of Items of unusual news Talus, send in Immediately by snail, telephone or telegraph. Such ?ewe stories are acceptable up to the (hear Of going to press. Wednesday's paper to printed Tuesday after noun aast Saturday's paper Friday after HMIMTHVIIXK. ?mtthvtlle. Jan. t.?Mr. Jesse it. of Braun, died at his home on Saturday afternoon at four >h. The body was interred at kh Church on Sunday afternoon I P. M. The funeral servkcea were looted by Rev. T. L. Cole. The deceased leaves a wife and little babies, his parents, brothers sisters* and other relatives to ?um hat loea Hla death Is inex Ibly sad because of his youth, 'far he had barely reached the thresh of manhood. The bereaved ones, more especially the young wife, have the sympathy of the entire com? munity. Miss Teeaa Halft*Id visited Mrs. W. H, Shiver recently. Miss Anna House Is spending the lldsys with Mrs. W. s. Smith. Mr. Robert McCutchen and sister. Miss Nets, spent Wednesday and Thursday with Dr. and Mrs. T. D. Fexworth. The Misses Gardners and Mr. Shan t. ?>urg. of Boykln. attended the ir at Sintth\11le on Wednesday it. (r. John McOutchen, of Bishop spent ths holidays with his ?er. tare Is a great deal of sickness In country. HTATEU/JRG. ?tatebura. Jan. 4.?The following >iits heve re urned to the Gen shunter Memorial ^a cade my after l.ng the Chtrstmas holidays* at homes: Misses Colsy Wells and ret Itrearley, ol 8t* Charles; ?Its and "Este 11.. Scarborough, ?pvtlle, ?aullne Haynsworth, imter, Mollte Ellerbe, of Hagood. Messrs Henry Plowden. Whlte "tfeison snd McLaurin \ppelt of pinning. Mortimer Weinberg and rard Burress, of Wedgefleld and ,u 1'almer. of ('artery lite. :iss Leeste Nelson spent several of teat seek In Sumter. <wea fheodosla and Bessie Dar vhnted In Clarendon for several during the holidays. ? and Mrs. J. Kelson Frlerson. me University of South Carolina, fcd thslr little daughter. Undee. snd Emmi? Frlerson. of Columbia, lent the Christmas holidays at Plsn j Vale." R. M. Cantey has been In Man ipuj for the past ten days. ?MMr. Maxwell Jenkins. Jr.. of St. CRsnrtes, spent Thursday with the Dargans at "Marston." Mv. Leon Stuckey snd Miss Bessie Htuckey visited their sister, Mrs. E. W. Deeasing. at Midway, last week. Misses Juliet snd Wlllo lmlna Dar-I gaa visited Mrs. W. M. Leonlr at Meratto. durtna the holidays. Heese Harriet snd Fannie Saund kv# icnejaed to the Otnegji for after spending the holidays ?lr home Edward WIUMvsason of i'rovl entered school at th?. G. 8. M. last Monday. hard Jenkins, of Mechan ha.s returned home after pay Mra T. a\ Htuckoy a visit. W. D. and II V. Fnerson the holidays with their month Mrs Ii. N Frlerson. W. A. Alston, of Hagood. gg ly at "Msrston." Irvine Klchardson. of Sumte, Saturday at "Spring Bank." St. Julbin Tyler, of Cameron lias Sells of Columbia visited ni Vale"' during the h(dldays. a G. M. Ssunders gave a de. itful dance at her home on Friday fening. Bettle Frler?o.n ami Mrs Pagan spent Filday at "Mars Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Williams Spent th? holidays In Picken*. Miss Hcttlc I re rson returned t<? Pvhter on Mm< 1 ,\ iff. r *|" ndlng the holidays nf her home The minstrel given by the young s?en of the acad*-mv ?;h n un it .sue eeea There was a good audience pr? ent tn Spit* of the very e,,h! Weither and everybody aas delighted, The einging and acting of the young m n wa^i line snd the **r 1111. i > 11 ?rinancc was* excellent. Miss Thendosla Dargun attended a reo? ptton on Monday given by Mis gaa ins Alston, at her home in Hi two COLOltKD MEN having smAlii. pox \iu li:ft on sllH TK \< K ALI. DAY AND* Till A si .NT BACK TO MAKION. |>r. Oi W. lUrnio DlWlIM Credit for Disease?! Mm not Doing t'nlondod At Sumter?Cases ( nine l-'roni Ma rlon ami Were Bound for bjrt* - burg. Yesterday morning when the 11 ; . rn. train came In two cases of small pox would have been unloaded upon the city had it not been for th > work of Dr. C. W. Birnle of this city who saved Sumter from the unwished for and dreaded visitors, who were two colored men bound from Marlon to '.ynchburg. one of them Just getting over the disease and the other Just taking it. They were not allowed to get off at Lynchburg, their desired destination, and so were brought on to 8umter where they would have been set free had it not been that through the warning of Dr. Blrnie, Mayor Jennings had had time to no? tify the health officer and station him with a policeman at the depot to keep away any such undesirable visitors. It seems that the men came from Marlon and were bound for Lynch burg or at any rate that was the way their ticket read. Dr. Birnle got on the train at Florence with them and when the two men got off at Lynch *>arg and were Immediately hustled back on the train by the city officials at that place, who had received no? tification of the kind of visitors they wiere about to receive, Dr. Birnle at once made It his business to find out what**the conductor expected to do with the two cases of small pox. He found that the conductor expected to take them on to Sumter and turn them off the train there. He did not have time to get offene train at May esvllle but he got someone to tele? phone Mayor Jennfngs of the two cases of small pox and what the con? ductor expected to do with them, when he got to Sumter. ? At Sumter Mayor Jennings got in a hurry as soon as he had receive ! the telephone message from Mayes ville for he knew that It would not take the train long to get here and something must be done before it ar? rived. He at once got the health of? ficer by phone and told him w hat his duty was. He also sent a policeman { along to see that things moved ! smoothly and to help the health of? ficer in case of need. So when the train pulled in there they were both waiting to see that no cases of small Dei got off in the city of Sumb-v. This they eaw to, and when the con? ductor insisted, they mildly told him that they would tie his train down to the track and keep it there all day for him. The conductor objected lO this even more th;in carrying on tl t cases of email POl which were In the smoking apartment of the color .1 eeach< The matter was finally settled by the coach being run outside the Ottjf limits and left on a side trn< U while tl t of th<- train pulled out for Columbia. Health officer Towles kept | strict quarantine on the coach all yester? day until last night when the evening train pulled out. The coach with tie two am ill pox patients was attached to It and the health officer rode ej far as the city limits to see that tin train did not 1 that the two undesirable citizens were taken to their bom.' town, or to some place where they were wanted more tb.ci they wer?> in Sumter. Ilocky Bluff Personal*. Rooky I'.lufY. Jan. 5.?Mr. John S. Kennedy and family, of shunter, spent last Thursday with Mr. J. J. ItntfleM and family. Mr w. r Baker and family spent Sunday g| Mr. J. J. Hatf'u Id's. Mr. and Mrs. j. B. Mci.eod spen< yv< dn? :;da> In Sumter. Tber?' is m ?r?- moving being doe here then the writer ever s;iw or heard of before. Almost every neuro family and about three-fourths of the while families hnVO moved. Among th.. who have moved away are IfOOnra Thad Bdenn W. Skinner/, Johnson White end u. k. ardia stm ethers are expeetiug to move soon. CASTOR IA For Inlaats $n<i Children, Hie Kind Ycu Ban /'ways jGugM Bears the yiggT^T Signature*.; L/: ? \ '/&7?!Zfr \v ? (nation en i m?- i eju ed young man. a* machlnl plpe-flltliu and general mill worU. Sober and good habits. Add,. SD W. 1?. Mi'ir. w, Hum; \. tth St , Wil? mington. N'. i\ l-.".-::t w-Jt. sdk K ton sai.i.? First els I es ami mules. i';ir load lust r> celved. See me before buying and I will sa\e you money. II. li. Tomlnson, Ibirwood, S. C. W?S?l-3-4t. HIGHER RATES UNJUSTIFIED. RAILROADS4 ACCtJBKD OF KX TRAVAGANCE AND MISMAN? AGEMENT. Braudels Lays Bare The Weakness and Unreeeonableness of The De? mand for Kigber Freight Rates. Washington. Jan. 8.?-Higher stand? ards of efficiency, not increased freight charges, arc the paramount neeos today of American railways This proposition is the essence of the brief tiled today with the inter? state commerce commission by Louis D. Brandeis of Boston, counsel for the traffic committee of commercial organizations of the Atlantic sea? board, in the two investigations by the commission of the proposed ad? vances in frleght rates by carriers In official classification territory?that part of the country east of the Mis? sissippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. Railroad managers, Mr. Brandeis contends. In an effort to meet exit? ing needs should look not without, but within. "If their net income is insufficient," he says, "the proper remedy i,a not higher rates, resulting In higher costs and lessened business, but scientific management, resulting in lower costs, in higher wages and Increased business. If their credit is impaired, the proper remedy is not to apply the delusive stimulant of higher rates, but to strengthen their organization by Introducing ad? vanced methods and eliminating questionable practices. Thus they will maintain credit by deserving it." Mr. Brandeis indicates that he con? siders the great question Involved In the Investigation to be the statement of Mr. Wlllard, president of the Bal? timore & Ohio, "that the tendency of rates will be to continue upwards"? that Is, that there will be a progres? sive increase in rates. "As an alternative to the railroads practico of combining to increase rates," suggests Mn Brandeis, "we stead of a dangerous make-shift, we offer a constructive policy, scientific management, under which, as costs fall, wages rise." The law places the burden of proof pf the reasonableness of the proposed advances upon the railroads. Mr. Brandeis maintains that the roads "have failed utterly to sustain their burden of proof; have failed so com? pletely that the application of the railroads for approval of the new tariff should be denied." , In a discussion of "scientillc man? agement" it is maintained that the contention of the railways that the possibilities Of economy in railroad? ing have been pracically exhausted is "contrary to all human experience :n other lines of activity." It is maintained by Mr. Brandeis that "at least $1,000,000 a day could Dg sa\ed by the pursuit of methods < f scientific management of Amer? ican railroads." nl response t<> the contention of the railroads that the proposed In? creases In class rales a: e r< asotialue, Mr, Brendels urges that no evidence was presented to sustain the conten? tion; that no Increase in any class rate can properly be made mithout Kiving the shippers an opportunity i ? bi heard, and that the pending increases were fixed without afford? ing the shippers such an opportunity. He argues further that "the injus? tice and Inequality in tin- existing alaaslflcatlons are such that no horizontal raJgi in rates could be adopted without great hardshhip to the shippers In communities effected; that^the proposed Increase seriously distort.;, on s >nu; railroads, the rela? tion <?f long distance to short distance traffic; thai the imposition of nearly the whole burden of the increased rates upen class rates appears to be unjust; that the proposed increase would seriously oontract the market ? f the manufacturers and merchants of the Atlantic seaboard; that it would seriously increase the cost Of living and that it would reduce the volume of long distance tonnage and henee the expected gross revenue of the railroads." As to tie- argument of the railroads that tin y iv? d additional revenue on account of the required Increase In wages, Mr. Branded submits three propositions! VFirst. Some railroads at least do not nee i additional Income, "Second, In some railroads any ex? isting need of additional Income i--? dm- t<? causes other than wage in? creases ?>r acts of congress, "Third, Bvery railroad which ii properly undertaken and financed can meet any existing needs without rate inoreuscs, through the Introduction of scientillc manage m< ut." The contention of rallrouds thai greater income is Imperative In order |o Stellle Ite.did lit- W capital for CX tensions and Improve men's, is no t i y the assertion thai "If Ibe credH of American railroads is in any re? spect impaired the Impairment Is due either to the unwarrantable attack made upon it by the railroads and their ? ociatt . <>r t<> their Individual offer cooperation costs. In mismanagement, and that it is not the result of any necessary Increase of operating expenses or of govern? ment regulation. "If any general distrust of railway Investment exists, its eouoe will he found not in the Im reased burdens Imposed by wage advances or by government regulations, but In a dis? trust of the purposes and Judgment of those who control and manage the great railroad properties." WAR IN HONDURAS. Bonilla Proclaims Himself Constitu? tional President of Honduras. New Orleans, Jan. 2.?Re-entering the country over which he formerly ruled and from which he was prac? tically banished after being deposed two years ago, Manuel Bonilla today proclaimed himself "constitutional president" of the republic of Hon? duras. The news of the landing of the Bonilla revolutionary forces on the Atlantic coast of Honduras, near Puerto Cortes, and of the issuance of the former president's proclamation, was received tonight by a member of the Bonilla junta here in a cable from Puerto Barrios, A combined naval and lari attack upon Puerto Cortes is expected at any moment. It is said to be the plan of Bonilla to shell the town with the gunboat Hornet if the comman? dant refuses to surrender, and to ca;>*\re or sink the Hohduran gun? boat Tatumbla, which is anchored in shallow water near the docks. An ad? vance grard of calvary Is to cut the railroad line opposite Omoa, and a line of infantry with one company of artillery is to march against Puerto Cortes. Advices received in New Orleans from Puerto Cortes tonight state that Davila has 500 trained troops in Puerto Cortes in addition to a small battery of machine guns. The dis? patch added that the loyalty of these men were doubled. Just how much opposition would be given Bonilla in undertaking to overthrow i.^vila and again place himself at the head of the stormy little Central American republic is largely a matter of con? jecture. IBEP THE KIDNEYS WELL. Health Ls Worth Saving, and Some Smmter People Know How to Save It. Many Sumter people take their lives In their hands by neglecting the kidneys when they know thes* organs need help. Sick kidneys are respon? sible for a vast amount of suffering and 111 health, but there is no need to suffer nor to remain in danger when all diseases and aches snd pains due to weak kidneys can be quickly and permanently cured by the use at Doan's Kidney Pills. Here is a Sum? ter citizen's recommendation. Mrs. Willie Bultman, 5 E. Calhoan St.. Sumter, S. C, saye: I foana Donne Kidney Tills to be an excellent remedy. My back ached for some time and I was in almoet constant mis? ery. I finally saw Doan'a Kidney Ptite advertised, procured a box at China's Drug Store and used thess. They re- i lleved the pain in nay tolas a?d strengthened my back and I have R* t been troubled since. I gladly recom? mend Doan's Kidnsy Pills." For sale by all dealers. Price 60 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. New York, sole agent- for the United Stntes. Remember the name?Doan's and take no other. No. 29 You will find us alive to your every need in furniture every day m Ihe New Year?you'll find us fully stocked with the finest that tin: best manufacturers produce. For the patronage, support and friendship of the public we enjoy? ed during 1910 we wish to give our sincere thanks and our well w ishes for 1911. bor everything in furniture, go to WITIIKUSPOON BROS, Fl ItNITl UK COMPANY. Piano Tuning. ~\_ Mr. Etamund R. Hurrsy offers bis services to those w ho n? ed an I \pert and experienced Piano and Organ tuner ami repairer, References fur? nished end work guaranteed. Address BDMTJND R. MURRAY, Sumter, S. C. m ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. ?Vcgclable rYeparattonforAs similaiingihcFooda^Re^ula ting Uic Stomachs and?owelsof Infants/Children Promotes Digp3tion?keffTi nc ss and Rest.Contalns nettter OpiuTiLMorphine nor Mineral. Not Narcotic, For Infants wACY:l fegu, The Kind Yoa Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of v Apefect Remedy for Consflpi tlon?Sour Storoadi.Dtafrtoea Wonus jConvulswns Jevrrisk nessdndlrOSSOFSlEffi ncSiimk- Sifrurart of new YORK. Atb months old K^act Copy of Wrapper. in Use For Over Thirty Years CASTOR Tk ? YOUR BANK ACCOUNT; OUR DESIRE. Your Satisfaction ; Our Pleasure Your Need; Ours to Supply t. Let's Talk It Over THE PEOPLE'S BANK, Capital $50,000 12 VV. Liberty St. Sumter, S. C Time and Tide Wait for no Man." Hut the Farmers' Bank <S: Trust Company is always waiting with the goods. Having the largest capital stock of any bank in the county, and a steadily increasing surplus, its prepared to take care r>f you and wants ycur accouut. The Farmers' Bank and Trust Co. LIME. CEMENT, t& \ i M i: PLASTER. SI1INOI.ES nis. PIRK BRICK. DRAIN PIPE. ETC. T_J0,r pro;n EtlCfl Flour. Ship 91 uff.'Kr.in. Iidy, vjldlU, MlxedCowandOhlckeoPeed. Horses. Mules. SJlKif*' ?a?T an:d: Xo Order Too Large Or Too Small. Booth-Harby Live Stock Co. SUMTER. SOUTH CAROLINA. Garden Seeds We have just received a large stock of Fresh Seeds for your garden, and would be pleased for you to conic in and supply your needs. Now is the time lor planting CABBAGE. LETTUCE. SPINACH. MUSTMID, AND GARDEN PEAS. PARSLEY, RADISH We also have a complete selection of Onion Sets. Mail Orders Solicited. Sibert's Drug Store, W. \Y. Mlti ltT. PHONE 283. tm:x... . ....??w DR. N. G. OSTEEN, JR., DENTIST. 18 W. Liberty St. -:- Phone No. 30. -office hours fl TO i, ?: 2 TO 6.